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Max Karnig

Mike Quilliam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:01:26 +0000

Max sent over a few shots from his recent world travels. If you take a look at the last photo in this segment you can check out Max taking off on a bomb at Mavericks. There are a few other shots of Max around the San Diego area and from his most recent trip to Puerto.

Photo by Michael Barrus

Photo by Michael Barrus

Photo by Michael Barrus

Photo by Michael Barrus

Photo by Michael Barrus

Photo by Michael Barrus

Max at Mavericks photo by Frank Quirarte

Throwback to the 80’s

Mike Quilliam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:45 +0000

I just wanted to pay homage to some of the ads by Powell Peralta back in the day. Some might not know any of these guys or maybe have just heard about them in passing but the guys were superstars in the 80’s at least to the skaters of the world. Back before the internet was available on everyones phone and youtube had every video imaginable on it the only way we got to see what was going on was through the pages of Transworld and Thrasher. It was a simple time back then.

Hawk

Dudes

Such a rad collage

Lance and his skating upside down dog

I first saw this in the back of my very first Transworld, I traded a Surfer mag for it

The Brat, Mothra, Grosso he has had a variety of nicknames over the years. He still kills it every day and wears the best darn clothes ever

I never got the Steadham board back in the day but was always a huge fan of those graphics and now own 2 of them

So Original, where does Tony end and his board begin

The First Guerrero board

Guerrero and Jim Thiebaud

Atwaters Street Team

Mike Quilliam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:48:42 +0000

We got our street team out in forces these days and we like to make the Atwater message stick so we make our team stand out. Here we have NateO rocking a fresh hawk on his way to school to spread the Atwater message to all he encounters. Keep your eyes out for this little ripper.

The New Atwater/Chris Mumma Poster!!!!

Mike Quilliam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:52:04 +0000

We keep telling our team to get out there and shoot with some quality photographers, well this is what happens when you listen. We just did another run of posters and did a couple thousand with Atwaters Chris Mumma. I was out back this afternoon setting up a little bank to curb next to the Atwater RV that we got parked behind the office and Chris rolled up with his girlfriend Ally. I thought what a perfect time to get Chris to sign some posters to hang up around town and specifically Wahoo’s. So below you can see how I made Chris feel like a celebrity and had him sign a few posters and snap a couple shots.

Next poster will be Isidro Vargas doing a Frontside Blunt down an 11 stair in Santa Ana, we discussed it yesterday.

Atwater at Myst in New Jersey

Mike Quilliam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:46:48 +0000

Last night in New Jersey Atwater was one of the Hosts to a fun filled evening at Myst. Jack Laird showed up with all his goodies in tow i.e. a section of our Surf Expo Booth designed by Sean Tully our new poster staring Sage Hulls and a few pieces to comfort the masses during a night of $1 absinthe shots to the last few people in the bar. These little shin digs will be going on here and there over the next few months so keep your eyes glued to this site to get all your Atwater news.
The Crowd at Myst

Jack and the ladies

Joe Delgato

Jamie, Jack, Christine, Harrison, Dan Kennedy, Jason Taesh Carter McCoy

Jeff Smith who shot I think all these photos except for this one since he’s on the other end

Jason Taesh and Jackus

Phill Mansfield

Dave from Surf Punks

Dan Kennedy and Dr. Jackus Laird D.D.S.

Nadine and Jack taking some shots that they’ll never forget

Schatts Bakery in Bishop got Shaka’d

Mike Quilliam — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:15:56 +0000

The Ol Do finger at Schatts bakery got hit by some serious Atwater Shakas this past weekend on one of our guys trip to Mammoth. I will leave his name off this post as I wouldn’t want Mr. Do-Finger to come after him.

Devin Briggs riding an upside down skateboard

Mike Quilliam — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:50:03 +0000

Have you ever seen someone purposely set up their board upside down. I have seen someone put their trucks on backwards, throw the bird on the wrong mount but never have I seen someone ride a board upside down, that is until this morning when I checked my email and got a message from Devin Briggs. Devin works at Jokers skate shop and in their down time goofs around with the laws of physics. When I first opened the video he sent (which you can check out below) I figured he’d be doing some Rodney Mullen Darkslides not actually riding the board set up backwards. So take a look at Devin rocking his bizzaro board.

hipster holocaust from S stopnik on Vimeo.

Miller Barbershop

Mike Quilliam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:32:03 +0000

So Dean has been talking a bunch about Millers Barbershop in Costa Mesa and how I’d love the place. I was up for the journey and I love to see new spots so I grabbed the camera and we headed out there last Friday afternoon. The Shop is right across from Triangle Square on a side street and when you walk up to the place you get bombarded with stickers from the Proprietors friends that have been loyal customers to Mr Mark Miller for years. When you walk into this place is quite overwhelming at first since it appears that every square inch of wall space has been covered with old pages of Thrasher and Surfer mags and about a million old punk flyers. There is even an echo beach poster hanging on the ceiling which was a real blast from the past. If you ever have a chance to visit Millers barbershop for a cut or just to take a look at the ceiling I would recommend it.

The Ceiling

Marks got a lot of three stogies stuff all over the shop

Great reading material, I didn’t want to leave

True Sounds of Liberty

Reed on the bathroom door

What a view

We gave Mark a new poster for the shop this one is of Sage Hulls

and this one is of Chris Mumma

Matty Ratty’s new ride

Mike Quilliam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:19:32 +0000

Matt stopped by the other day to show off his new ride. It seems like everybody is getting new old cars these days which I think is great. Check out some of the shots of Matt showing us around his new love.

Atwater picks up Antoine Allain from Santa Barbara

Mike Quilliam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:54:42 +0000

Antoine is 18 living in Santa Barbara born in France. Currently sponsored
by Atwater Clothing, Globe shoes, West wetsuits and Sharper Eye surfboards.

“The multi-talented Frenchman has really come into his own this Winter. You
always knew he was going to be a great surfer some day, and the future is
now”, Jon Shafer.

Along with Antoines amazing skills in the water he is a very talented musician as well. Check out the little diddy he wrote below.

All photos Jon Shafer!